There are all sorts of schemes going on and it can debatable if they count as abuse. If someone is trying to promote their project then they may want to give out some votes to supporters. Big projects have done that for years. We should not penalise smaller ones or their redfish fans without good reason. We have enough issues with people leaving and have to find the right balance.
I've seen this one posting Snaps that did not tell me much about what they do. I can't keep up with everything around here. People need to talk to each other to work it out without fighting.
I don't know how you get to this from the post, which project are you talking about?
I'm talking generally, but looking again I can see you are talking about direct payments to get a vote and that is not on. We went through all that years ago and it was not great.
I have seen some projects, including games, complain that they got attacked and that can discourage people from building on Hive. There are no definitive rules on what is acceptable, but buying votes is generally frowned upon.